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An Overview of the Budapest Memorandum

Introduction The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances comprises three substantially identical political agreements signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungary, on 05 December 1994, to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The three memoranda were…

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What is the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine?

Introduction The Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine (also known as the Trilateral Contact Group for the peaceful settlement of the situation in eastern Ukraine) is a group of representatives from Ukraine, the Russian Federation, and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) that was formed as means to facilitate a diplomatic resolution to the war in the Donbas region of…

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An Overview of the Minsk Agreements

Introduction The Minsk agreements were a series of international agreements which sought to end the Donbas war fought between armed Russian separatist groups and Armed Forces of Ukraine, with Russian regular forces playing a central part. A map of the buffer zone established by the Minsk Protocol follow-up memorandum. The first, known as the Minsk Protocol, was drafted in 2014 by the…

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What is the Normandy Format?

Introduction The Normandy Format (French: Format Normandie), also known as the Normandy contact group, is a grouping of states who met in an effort to resolve the war in Donbas and the wider Russo-Ukrainian War. The four countries who make up the group – Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and France – first met informally in 2014 during the 70th anniversary of D-Day celebrations in Normandy,…

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Ukraine: "Condemn Russia's Imperialist Threat"

Ukraine: “Condemn Russia’s Imperialist Threat”

Ukraine: ‘condemn Russia’s imperialist threat’ • People and Nature • 24 January 2022 Ukrainian socialists are urging international unity against the Russian government’s imperialist policies that threaten a new war. The Social Movement, a group of mainly labour activists in Ukraine, calls in a statement for “solidarity with people who have suffered from the war that has lasted almost eight…

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France hopes to end Russia sanctions. EUSEC: Hollande poorly informed

France hopes to end Russia sanctions. EUSEC: Hollande poorly informed

French President Francois Hollande has said that following recent ceasefire progress in Ukraine he hopes to see the end of sanctions against Russia. Mr Hollande has proposed a meeting of the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine in Paris later this month on the situation in Ukraine. He said there had been progress in recent weeks in implementing a troubled February peace deal. But Mr…

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Street violence in Kiev dims prospects for peace effort in Ukraine's east

Street violence in Kiev dims prospects for peace effort in Ukraine’s east

IMPORTANT : EUSEC does not consider the article below as an news report because it is written in a opinion style. A spasm of street violence has driven home how hard it is going to be for Ukrainian President President Petro Poroshenko to rally national support behind an internationally-brokered deal to bring peace to the east of his country. The violence outside parliament on Monday was triggered…

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Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 26 August 2015

Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 26 August 2015

This report is for the media and the general public. The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by the parties and security considerations*. The SMM facilitated a local ceasefire that allowed for gas pipeline repairs in the Luhansk region. The situation at and around Donetsk airport (“Donetsk…

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